Google makes it easier for people to search in Hindi

Users can easily switch between English and Hindi when using the Google Search app and Google Search on most browsers on both Android and iOS mobile phones.TOI Tech | Updated: July 01, 2016, 09:30 IST

To make it easier for people to access content in Hindi, Google has introduced a new tab on Google Search for mobile which shows results in Hindi.

The new feature will be available in states with significant Hindi-speaking population. Users can easily switch between English and Hindi when using the Google Search app and Google Search on most browsers on both Android and iOS mobile phones. The feature so far is not available on UCBrowser and Opera Mini.

“Users in India would now be able to search for information online the same way they live: moving between multiple languages depending on the moment or the audience. For example, users may search for “samachar” in English, but would rather find results better for a Hindi query ‘समाचार’,” said Shekhar Sharad, product manager, international search, Google in an official blog post.

The Hindi Search tab is available in states Bihar, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Delhi and West Bengal.

The feature works across queries a wide range of search queries like new, movies, celebrities, sports and more. “Now you can type your query in English and then flip the tabs to read the answers in Hindi. Users can even look up health related information and view the results in Hindi,” Sharad added.

Google recently bumped up images for its Maps and Earth apps. The update includes photos from Landsat 8 designed by NASA and the United States Geological Survey and "new processing techniques for sharper images than ever before." It claims that it is mining data from nearly a petabyte of Landsat imagery.